All of the sudden this great time period ended on October 24, 1929, also known as Black Thursday. The world was now in a time period that would later be known as the Great Depression. The nation no longer had hope and lost confidence in leadership. Writers began to change their writing to radical politics. The Depression destroyed businesses and magazines and books were no longer produced as they once were. Family magazines increased in production and crime-fiction, westerns, and romantics were the specializations. As soldiers went to war, one of the war efforts was to provide them with books. The “books came to symbolize the ideological struggle between the United States and the Axis Powers.” (508). Even when books were almost impossible to…show more content… Jun Fujita was born near Hiroshima, Japan on December 13th, 1888 but it is a mystery as to what went on in early part of his life. His life picks up once he ends up immigrating to America, and more notably, to Chicago, in order to become an engineer but fate will soon deal him a different card. He started to take photos for what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology, and his portraits of diverse people such as Al Capone, started to earn him fame. One major detail about Fujita was that he was more widely known for his photography during his time, rather than for his poetry but time will change this aspect. Fujita had a definite sense of detail in the way he grasped life, and this is what led to his passion for photography and which will eventually bleed into his poetry. In The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, it states: “Mr. Fujita shows an extraordinary power of evoking a whole landscape with its emotional suggestions, from words as economically used as is the single line of the master etcher,” (660). This passage reflects what Fujita is most known for throughout his career, his detail, and the way he can create such scenes in the minds of people that read his poetry. He used his terrific sense of grabbing detail from life in not only poetry and photography but also as a
